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Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A plain white marble statue base shaft (0.54 × 1.25 × 0.55), complete above and broken below. The right side was hollowed out, to create a recessed panel.

Description of Text

The text is on the lower edge of a gameboard (type 3Rows.4, 0.43 × 0.97, carefully cut, circles 0.03, central rosettes in circle 0.10), within the recessed panel on the right side; the text is cut level with the top of a second text (not yet published) on the adjacent side.

Description of Letters

Irregular letters, ave 0.03; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.

Date

Late fifth/sixth century (titulature).

Edition
ἐπὶ Φλαβίου Φωτίου σχολαστικοῦ καὶ πατρός
Translation Under Flavius Photios, scholasticus and pater
Commentary

ii. This is the third of the gameboards given by Flavius Photios; see 5.10, 5.14 and discussion at V.44 and V.47.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths: during clearing in the Aleipterion. Original location: Hadrianic Baths. Last recorded location: Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.9; SBI 42).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Gameboards 2.iii; republished by Roueché (2004), 238.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

Face ii. (1989)
Face ii. detail (1988)
Both faces (2004)